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Started by merithyn, August 09, 2009, 01:41:56 PM

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Yes, like a fish!
Enough to keep my head above water
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Maximus

#30
August 09, 2009, 05:24:13 PM
No, I was rarely allowed in water as a kid, because I didn't know how to swim.

garbon

#31
August 09, 2009, 05:26:02 PM
Quote from: Jaron on August 09, 2009, 05:07:27 PM
We already know garbon can't swim.

Except for the fact that I had swimming lessons as a child. :mellow:
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Caliga

#32
August 09, 2009, 05:29:01 PM
Quote from: garbon on August 09, 2009, 05:26:02 PMExcept for the fact that I had swimming lessons as a child. :mellow:
Didn't realize there was such a thing as swimming lessons (unless you count like swimming in gym at school).  :huh:
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garbon

#33
August 09, 2009, 05:32:08 PM
Quote from: Caliga on August 09, 2009, 05:29:01 PM
Didn't realize there was such a thing as swimming lessons (unless you count like swimming in gym at school).  :huh:

Sure there are. I think the first year, I had lessons at the YMCA (was 3) and then after that my sister and I started taking lessons at the local community pool (when we were still in California). You even got report-card like cards that listed what you skills you had (e.g. treading water, diving, breaststroke).

Also, we didn't have a pool in the Marlborough Public System, so no school swimming.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Caliga

#34
August 09, 2009, 05:40:15 PM
Oh right, I forgot about the YMCA. :face:
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saskganesh

#35
August 09, 2009, 05:47:10 PM
sure, but I've never had to swim from a sinking boat to an imperceptible shoreline perhaps several miles away. if it's there at all.

I can walk 30 miles in the snow, barefoot, without food, uphill. I can't make a similar claim for swimming. wtf do I do about the sharks?



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Valmy

#36
August 09, 2009, 06:09:00 PM
Yes though I really had to work at it as a kid, I had a terrible phobia of water until I was like 8 or something.
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Jaron

#37
August 09, 2009, 06:11:57 PM
Quote from: garbon on August 09, 2009, 05:26:02 PM
Quote from: Jaron on August 09, 2009, 05:07:27 PM
We already know garbon can't swim.

Except for the fact that I had swimming lessons as a child. :mellow:

Sorry, it was a black joke. :P
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MadBurgerMaker

#38
August 09, 2009, 08:36:46 PM
Yes.  Competitive swimming and water polo until the end of high school (city and "school" leagues), but not fish-like enough to get a scholarship anywhere.  Welp.

DontSayBanana

#39
August 09, 2009, 08:41:06 PM
YMCA swimming lessons, which did diddly in comparison to spending near my first thirteen summers practically living at church friends' swimming pools.
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BVN

#40
August 10, 2009, 03:34:07 AM
I can swim since I was 5 years old. I find it strange that there are people who can't swim.

Monoriu

#41
August 10, 2009, 03:41:34 AM
Just enough to keep my head above water.

Eddie Teach

#42
August 10, 2009, 03:43:53 AM
Quote from: MadBurgerMaker on August 09, 2009, 08:36:46 PM
Yes.  Competitive swimming and water polo until the end of high school (city and "school" leagues), but not fish-like enough to get a scholarship anywhere.  Welp.

Apparently on Languish, the ability to cross from one side of the pool to the other without touching the ground is fish-like.  ;)
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Iormlund

#43
August 10, 2009, 05:22:05 AM
I don't think I know anyone who can't swim. A/C at home is something relatively new, the usual cure for summer temperatures when I was a kid was to spend the whole day at the building/block/neighborhood/sportsclub pool.

DisturbedPervert

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August 10, 2009, 05:46:36 AM Last Edit: August 10, 2009, 05:58:23 AM by DisturbedPervert
Quote from: Iormlund on August 10, 2009, 05:22:05 AM
I don't think I know anyone who can't swim. A/C at home is something relatively new, the usual cure for summer temperatures when I was a kid was to spend the whole day at the building/block/neighborhood/sportsclub pool.

Public pools :x

There is one on the top of my apartment building, never been in it.  I bet people poop in there.
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